How to Change Your World with Walking Meditation
It doesn’t matter how long you walk as much as how mindful you do it
I was walking as slow as I could, paying attention to every detail of my movements. It was a cold morning but the sun was rising and you could feel a very light heat on the uncovered skin of your body.
I was on a meditation retreat and we had already done mindfulness and yoga sessions, some silent activities, and the usual meditation talks. But you can’t be doing sitting meditation and yoga all-day so to change the routine a little there are walking sessions.
So, after the instructions by our guide, we all were doing some free walking outside the facilities. A very slow walk. We might look a little weird, I guess.
Don’t think is easy to walk slowly. Even I was in a calm state — a meditation retreat! — my body had the tendency to walk faster than my attention.
I wanted to experience every detail of the moment.
Sensing my own body and body position while raising and lowering each leg, every point of my feet’s sole touching the ground while footling, the rhythm of my breathing and my heart in syncronicity to my movements.
And, at the same time, I was trying to be aware of the surroundings.
